Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX68968086

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About the database: In all listings clicking on the photo will open a page for the site with a larger photo. The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

NOTE: Clicking on the icons for each monument in the map will give the name of the monument. Where icons overlap they are replaced with an icon with a number - zooming in may separate them out.

OS Map:SX 68686 81654NMR record:SX 68 SE 16HER record:6673Megalithic Portal:34981Alternate name: Birch Tor Summit CairnShortName: CN:Birch TorButler map: 24.4Grinsell: N.BOV 1Barrow Report: 56 Notes: "The heavily disturbed remains of a large, flat-topped cairn lie on the ridge crest 230 metres north of Birch Tor. The centre and south margin of this feature have apparently suffered from an unrecorded excavation with spoil dumped to the south and on the east fringe of the mound. Two large upright slabs are embedded in the unexcavated interior of the cairn and may have previously been interpreted as elements of a kerb even though they lie several metres in from the actual edge of the feature. 10m to the north-west of the cairn is a warren boundary stone inscribed with the letters`WB'on its eastern side."Nearby sites:SX68698165Distance: 0.83km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone RowOS Map:SX 68980 80840NMR record:SX 68 SE 28HER record:49462Megalithic Portal:1819PMD:Challacombe Down Stone RowShortName: CC:ChallacombeButler map: 24.3Butler Vol 5: p.239 & Fig.169Turner: G20Notes: Turner Stone Circle G20. Dubious site - the current arrangement relates to stones placed during restoration of the stone row. See Worth (1953) p. 226 on how "nothing coherent" came of attempts to re-erect stones scattered to the west of the north end of the row which gave the appearance of a stone circle.Nearby sites:SX68988084Distance: 0.03km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone RowOS Map:SX 68960 80860NMR record:SX 68 SE 28HER record:6600Megalithic Portal:10092PMD:Challacombe Stone RowShortName: SS:ChallacombeButler map: 24.3DPD page: 126Notes: The largest and most prominent blocking stone of the Dartmoor rows is to be found at the Challacombe triple row. Worth states that it is over 5 feet in width at the base and over 6 feet in height. Butler (Vol. 2) states that the terminal pillar is today 0.5m shorter than when it was measured in 1893.Nearby sites:SX68968086Distance: 0km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone RowOS Map:SX 69016 80718NMR record:SX 68 SE 28HER record:6600Megalithic Portal:1819The Stone Rows of GB:Challacombe DownPMD:Challacombe Stone RowShortName: SR:ChallacombeButler map: 24.3Butler Vol 5: p.239 & Fig.169DPD page: 126Notes: "Bronze Age triple stone row well marked and wider apart at the north, drawing nearer to the south where they meet a blocking stone of unusual size. The stones have suffered little in their restoration except that a stone in the middle row was turned to form a blocking stone for that row. The loose stones scattered to the west of the north end have been suggested to form a stone circle and additional rows but may be stones excavated from the north end of the stone row."Nearby sites:SX69028072Distance: 0.15km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Grimspound Enclosed SettlementOS Map:SX 70070 80840NMR record:SX 78 SW 11HER record:8778Megalithic Portal:1344141065ShortName: ES:GrimspoundDPD page: 127Notes: Probabaly the best known enclosed settlement on Dartmoor, within walking distance of Warren House Inn. "Prehistoric enclosed settlement with a substantial granite surrounding wall, containing 24 hut circles, as well as several 'pens' built into the enclosure wall, positioned in a valley between Hookney Tor and Hameldon. First planned by A. C. Shillibeer in 1829, this site was excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1894-5. Within the guardianship area managed by Dartmoor National Park Authority". Extensive notes in the NMR record, see also coverage on Wikipedia and Legendary Dartmoor.Nearby sites:SX70078084Distance: 1.11km

OS Map:SX 69905 81314NMR record:SX 68 SE 36HER record:6611Megalithic Portal:34982Alternate name: Hookney Tor summit CairnShortName: CN:HookneyTorButler map: 20.7Grinsell: N.BOV 2Notes: Tor cairn north of Hookney Tor and resembling a barrow in shape. Enough of the topsoil has been removed to show that the mound is a natural outcrop feature covered with turf and heather, enclosed on three sides by a broken turf and stone bank. A footpath approaching the west side has probably effaced the remainder of the circuit. Nearby sites:SX69918131Distance: 1.05km

OS Map:SX 67158 81299NMR record:SX 68 SE 19HER record:6675Megalithic Portal:34690PMD:Water Hill Possible Chambered CairnAlternate name: Water Hill 1 CairnShortName: CN:Kings OvenButler map: 26.5.1Butler Vol 5: p.156 & Fig.95Grinsell: CHA 6Notes: Situated at SX 67158129 on the rounded summit of Water Hill is the remains of a substantial round cairn 18.0 metres in diameter and up to 1.4 metres high in the east and 0.9 metres in the west. The whole of the central area of the cairn has been robbed to construct a superimposed modern boundary cairn 4.0 metres in diam and 2.1 metres high. This has given a 'dished' appearance to the cairn proper. Several large slabs averging 0.8 metres by 0.7 metres scattered around the base of the boundary cairn may be the remains of a destroyed cist.

The southern flat topped cairn measures 18 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres in height and is surmounted by a modern stone pile. A large slab situated to the south of this pile may have been part of a cist. Nearby sites:SX67168130Distance: 1.85km